Health of a cat after castration in many respects depends on what and as he eats. Operation on removal of testicles strongly changes a hormonal background of the pet – so, also his diet has to change.
Features of food of the castrated cats
The operated cats cease to show interest in an opposite sex, cease to shout and as a rule do not feel the aspiration to mark the territory. But as compensation they often begin to show keen interest in a bowl with a forage, constantly demanding additive. The tendency of eunuchs to obesity - and after it both passivity and low-mobility is also explained by it.
Therefore one of the main tasks of owners of a cat – after castration to watch that the animal did not overeat. Of course, it is very difficult to resist to poor, eternally hungry cat who looks in eyes and touchingly elicits food – but if to indulge the increased cat's appetite in the first weeks after operation, then then inevitably it is necessary to put an animal on a rigid diet. Therefore it is important not to overfeed an animal since the moment of operation and to control his weight. If the cat begins to grow fat – it is necessary either to reduce his portion or to pass to less high-calorie forages.
Besides, cats after castration get into "risk group" – corpulent animals have a tendency to an urolithic disease, and any diseases of an urinary system at eunuchs can result in impassability of an urerta. Therefore the second important task when feeding of the castrated cats – prevention of such diseases. In a diet of such animals there has to be a food with the low content of such mineral substances as magnesium, calcium and phosphorus (they promote formation of stones). Besides, the cat always has to use enough water. It is especially relevant for those animals who eat a dry feed – the volume of liquid has to exceed food volume at least three times. If the cat does not wish to drink – better to refuse a dry feed.
As the castrated cats are especially sensitive to a diet, it is necessary to adhere to strictly chosen food type: or the animal eats sterns of industrial production (dry feed or canned food), or natural food. The natural diet can be diversified with canned food, but it is not recommended to combine such food with "drying".
It is better to feed the castrated cats by the principle "Pomala, but it is frequent" – small portions, but several times a day. If there are problems with weight, one day a week can be done fasting. Cats – predators, and short-term hunger strikes do not do harm to their health.
Food of a cat after castration by industrial sterns
For food of the castrated cats it is undesirable to use forages of general purpose – better to get special polnoratsionny forages a premium or a superpremium class with the lowered caloric content. In lines of forages of the famous producers (such as Purina, Iams, Royal Canin, Hill's, etc.) diets for the castrated animals are presented. Some producers release forages for eunuchs taking into account their age – for example, the forage for the young castrated cats is recommended from the moment of operation and before achievement to animals of 7 years. The recommended age is specified on packing of a forage.
When choosing the brand of a dry feed for the castrated cats it makes sense to be guided by whether it is pleasant to an animal of sterns of this producer, and how well he at the same time feels. At correctly picked up diet the cat is active, wool at it shining and not tousled, and problems with digestion are not observed.
If you combine dry and tinned feeds in a diet of a cat – it is desirable that they were from one ruler. Only in this case food will be balanced.
Natural food for kastirovanny cats: features of a diet
If the cat eats natural "home-made" food, then have to enter his menu:
- low-fat meat (beef, rabbit, turkey, chicken) – crude or slightly boiled,
- crude or boiled offal (lung, heart, liver, chicken stomachs or hearts),
- raw or boiled vegetables – 10-15% of the general diet, in mix with meat (squash, pumpkin, spinach, cucumbers, carrots, beet, a cauliflower, broccoli),
- fermented milk products (kefir, cottage cheese, acidophilus milk, fermented baked milk, varenets, curdled milk),
- a small amount of porridges (porridge, buckwheat, brown rice, it is possible bran – no more spoon of grain in day),
- crude quail egg or half of boiled chicken – 2-3 times a week.
It is possible to add a little vegetable oil to meat mixed vegetables – it well influences digestion.
And here fish is contraindicated to the castrated cats – because of high content of phosphorus. It is also strictly forbidden to indulge the pet smoked, salty and tinned food from a master's table.
To adjust a diet – a task not from simple, owners should monitor reaction of an animal to any given products (at the increased gas generation, a diarrhea or a lock to introduce amendments). At the same time food of a cat after castration has to be various. If the cat is excessively choosy and refuses everything, except meat – it is necessary either "to bring up" it, or to transfer to a polnoratsionny industrial forage.